Ichiro Nakayama

Ichiro Nakayama is a Professor, School of Law, Kokugakuin University where he has been teaching intellectual property law courses. Mr. Nakayama joined Kokugakuin University in 2009 after he served as an Associate Professor of School of Law at Shinshu University from 2005-2009. Prior to academic career, Mr. Nakayama spent many years in Government of Japan. His last position in GOJ was a Deputy Councilor, Secretariat of Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters, Cabinet Secretariat from 2003-2005. Mr. Nakayama originally joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1989. Then, he worked in various fields including patent law reform, regulatory reform in energy industries, and defense technology cooperation.

Mr. Nakayama received a Bachelor of Law degree in 1989 from University of Tokyo, a LL.M. in 1995 from University of Washington and M.I.A. in 1997 from Columbia University. He has published a number of articles and co-authored a book in the field of patent law.